SmartFilesystem question

[x56h34]

I see that there are two available 68k versions for download now. The SFS 1.254 and SFS2 2.3. Does anyone know what are the differences between the two?

[Framiga]

SFS2.x supports files bigger than 4BG.... if you have no need of such large files (on Classic) let alone the thing ;-)

[x56h34]

Thanks Framiga. I probably won't need that compatibility on my classic Amigas. :-)

I suppose that you can't update from v1 to v2 through Update FileSystem function of HDToolBox?

[Piru]

I suppose that you can't update from v1 to v2 through Update FileSystem function of HDToolBox?

You can, but SFS2 will consider the SFS1 filesystem corrupt. So no, you can't, really...

SFS1 and SFS2 are incompatible, and you can't switch between. You need to backup, install the fs, quickformat, restore files.

Also, the word is that SFS2 is a bit experimental for now, and as such it's should not yet be trusted your invaluable data. Finally: OS 3.x has no support for large files, so you're probably not able to use >4GB files anyway.

[x56h34]

Thanks Piru. I will stick to the latest ver 1.x for now.

[Framiga]

seems also that switch from 1.2x to 2.x, a quickformat is not enough!

[Piru]

seems also that switch from 1.2x to 2.x, a quickformat is not enough!

Well, you must only quickformat after installing the new fs (that includes rebooting!).

If quickformat still is not enough, then it's a (grave!) bug in the filesystem.

[Framiga]

no, no my fault.... is SFSSalv that have problems if someone has switched from 1.2x to 2.x (quickformatting it) which is not clear to me.

Hence and if i understood the author correctly, a new SFS2Salv will be required.

[amigagr]

SFS 1.x is available for AmigaOS4/PPC as well. It doesn't matter if you use AmigaOS 3.x/m68k or AmigaOS4/PPC, the only reason to use SFS 2.x instead of 1.x is for files > 4 GB, the max. file size of SFS 1.x is 4 GB - 2 bytes, SFS 2.x supports much larger files.

Most SFS tools (SFSDefrag, SetCache, SFSObject, SFSConfig, etc.) work with SFS2 as well, only tools which don't use the file system but work directly on the data (SFSCheck, SFSSalv and PartitionWizard) don't work with SFS2 partitions.
although SFS2 doesn't make any sense if nobody writes any software which works with files > 4 GB, AFAIK lha is the only AmigaOS 3.x software which was changed to support large files until now. There will be a SFS2Salv soon, but I'll probably change the SFS2 data structures once more for it, it urrently has problems with partitions which were used with SFS 1.x and quick reformatted to SFS2.

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